Knowledge about the static and dynamic situation is essential for joint workspaces of human and robot. Surveilling the joint area helps to realize a collaboration and co-existence of human and robot. Therefore, we propose in this paper a system that redundantly monitors the workspace to perceive obstacles within the workspace including the human worker. We use multiple, distributed range sensor...

The Department of Health & Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved the continuation of deeming authority for The Joint Commission’s hospital accreditation program through July 15, 2014. The CMS designation means that hospitals accredited by The Joint Commission may choose to be “deemed” as meeting Medicare and Medicaid certification requirements. CMS found ...

The paper describes the recent design and development efforts in DLR ́s robotics lab towards the second generation of light-weight robots. The design of the lightweight mechanics, integrated sensors and electronics is outlined. The fully sensorized joint, with motor and link position sensors as well as joint torque sensors enables the implementation of effective vibration damping and advanced co...

Scholars in the field of sustainability have often argued that the purpose of establishing and maintaining interorganizational collaboration is to overcome internal limitations of organizations and to strengthen organizational capacity. To examine structural effects of inter-organizational collaboration regarding the ability of networked organizations to effectively manage disasters, this study...

Mass collaboration involving large number of people working and learning together is emerging in the digitally networked environment. Socio-technical environments fostering mass collaboration are facilitated by the technical infrastructure of the Internet, and they support collaborating participants to solve problems, share information, and engage in the joint construction of artifacts and know...

Online tools for collaboration and social platforms have become omnipresent in Web-based environments. Interests and skills of people evolve over time depending in performed activities and joint collaborations. We believe that ranking models for recommending experts or collaboration partners should not only rely on profiles or skill information that need to be manually maintained and updated by...

The global expansion of the Web brings the global computing; and the increasing number of problems with increasing complexity & sophistication also makes collaboration desirable. In this paper, we presented a semanticsbased framework for collaborative problem solving in agent grid by coupling joint intention and dynamic description logics (DDL), our previous work to extend description logics (D...

This report summarizes the presentations and discussions that took place at the Sixth Joint Meeting of J-CaP and CaPSURE held in San Francisco, USA, in August 2012. The J-CaP and CaPSURE Joint Initiative was established in 2007 with the objective of analyzing, reviewing, comparing and contrasting data for prostate cancer patients from Japan and the USA within the two important large-scale, long...

The opportunities for international public health collaboration through joint business ventures between the USSR and Western nations, an arrangement that would benefit the public, industry, and the medical community, are discussed. Evidence indicates that the state of health of the Soviet population is declining rapidly; the Soviet minister has called for a major restructuring of the health ca...

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